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A Study on the Structural Integrity of an Auxiliary Feed Water Pump in a Nuclear Power Plant (원자력 발전소 보조급수펌프의 구조 건전성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chae-Sil;Cho, Bang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2014
  • The auxiliary-feed-water pump (AFWP) used to supply water during a station black out situation at nuclear power plants should meet the seismic qualification regulations stipulated in IEEE Std 323 and 344, so as to withstand earthquakes or dangerous situations. Here, we establish a model for the estimation of the structural integrity of this type of pump. If the natural frequency that results from a modal analysis is less than 33 Hz, we adopt a dynamic analysis, instead of a static analysis. A dynamic analysis was carried out taking into consideration seismic conditions such as the floor response spectra (FRS), an operation-base earthquake (OBE), and a safe-shutdown earthquake (SSE). Finally, an analytical estimation of the structural integrity of an AFWP is made through a comparison of calculated values and allowable values. If the result is less than the allowable stress, the pump is deemed to have good structural integrity. In addition, future studies will involve a stability check for rotor accidents that may occur during the operation of the pump.

Archival Description and Records from Historically Marginalized Cultures: A View from a Postmodern Window

  • Sinn, Dong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.115-130
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    • 2010
  • In the archival field, the last decade has witnessed much discussion on archives' broad responsibilities for social memory. Considering that the social role of archives has stemmed from postmodern thinking suggests a paradigm shift from viewing archives as static recorded objects to viewing them as dynamic evidence of human memory. The modern archives and archivists are products of nineteenth-century positivism, limiting their function to archiving written documents within stable organizations. The new thoughts on the social role of archives provide a chance to realize that traditional archival practices have preserved only a sliver of organizational memory, thus ignoring fluid records of human activities and memory. Archival description is the primary method for users to access materials in archives. Thus, it can determine how archival materials will be used (or not used). The traditional archival description works as the representation of archival materials and is directly projected from the hierarchy of organizational documents. This paper argues that archivists will need to redefine archival description to be more sensitive to atypical types of archival materials from various cultural contexts. This paper surveys the postmodern approaches to archival concepts in relation to descriptive practices. It also examines some issues related to representing historically marginalized groups in archival description who were previously neglected in traditional archival practices.

Efficacy of pushover analysis methodologies: A critical evaluation

  • Dutta, Sekhar Chandra;Chakroborty, Suvonkar;Raychaudhuri, Anusrita
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.265-276
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    • 2009
  • Various Pushover analysis methodologies have evolved as an easy as well as designers-friendly alternative of nonlinear dynamic analysis for estimation of the inelastic demands of structures under seismic loading for performance based design. In fact, the established nonlinear dynamic analysis to assess the same, demands considerable analytical and computational background and rigor as well as intuitive insight into inelastic behavior for judging suitability of the results and its interpretation and hence may not be used in design office for frequent practice. In this context, the simple and viable alternative of Pushover analysis methodologies can be accepted if its efficacy is thoroughly judged over all possible varieties of the problems. Though this burning issue has invited some research efforts in this direction, still a complete picture evolving very clear guidelines for use of these alternate methodologies require much more detailed studies, providing idea about how the accuracy is influenced due to various combinations of basic parameters regulating inelastic dynamic response of the structures. The limited study presented in the paper aims to achieve this end to the extent possible. The study intends to identify the range of applicability of the technique and compares the efficacy of various alternative Pushover analysis schemes to general class of problems. Thus, the paper may prove useful in judicial use of Pushover analysis methodologies for performance based design with reasonable accuracy and relative ease.

Design and Implemention of Application for Measuring Delivery Location (배달위치를 측정하기 위한 어플리케이션 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Byung-June;Lee, Ki-Young;Lee, Young-Dae;Kang, Jeong-Jin
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.31-35
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    • 2017
  • Recently, Many deliveries have sprung up and those are beginning to receive much attention from consumers. Like this, the application makes our lives more comfortable. Now, the delivery food application uses only static information of the user and the users only makes oder. In this thesis, however, the studies suggested that designed food application uses the user's location for mesuring a distance of delivery and estimated arrival time is displayed in the delivery application and The application provides a graphical view of the location of the user in real time.

Inelastic Analysis of RC Members Using Repair and Retrofitted Element (보수 및 보강요소를 이용한 RC 부재의 비탄성 해석)

  • Lee, Do-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.301-310
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    • 2006
  • In this short paper, an elasto-plastic repair and retrofit element is developed for the investigation of the seismic performance of damaged reinforced concrete members. The developed element is capable of reflecting the increased characteristics due to both repair and retrofitting for degraded strength and stiffness of the members. The element having both birth and death time can freely be activated within the user-defined time intervals during static and dynamic time-history analysis. Comparative studies are conducted for reinforced concrete members being repaired and retrofitted. Analytical predictions including the developed element display reasonable correlation with experimental results. In short, it is concluded that the developed element is capable of providing salient features for the healthy assessment of seismic performance of RC members being repaired and retrofitted.

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Experimental Study on Shear Connector for Precast Concrete Decks

  • Chung, Chul-Hun;Shim, Chang-Su;Jeong, Un-Yong
    • KCI Concrete Journal
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2001
  • For the design of shear connection for the composite precast concrete slabs. it is necessary to investigate its strength, stiffness, slip capacity and fatigue endurance. For theme purposes, push-out tests were performed with variations of the stud shank diameter and the compressive strength of the mortar. From the experimental studies, it could be observed that the deformation of the shear studs in a full-depth precast concrete slabs were greater than those in a cast-in-place slabs. The static strength of the shear connections obtained agree approximately with those evaluated from the tensile strength of the stud shear connectors owing to the effect of the bedding layer between the slabs and the beams. An empirical equation for the initial shear stiffness of a shear connection was also proposed. On the basis of the push-out tests, a full-scale composite beams with 8.0m span was designed and fatigue tests were carried out to study the behaviour of the stud shear connection and its effects on the flexural behaviour of the beam. The bonding arid friction between the concrete slab and the steel beam considerably increased the fatigue endurance of the shear connection.

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A System Design and Implementation for Geotechnical Engineering Field Application of Drone (드론의 지반공학분야 활용을 위한 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Taesik;Jung, Jinman;Min, Hong
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.173-178
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    • 2016
  • Many studies have been carried out on monitoring the target by cooperating a drone with remote sensors recently. This monitoring system uses static sensors to measure environmental data and drones to collect measured data. In geotechnical engineering, inspectors go around measuring the safety of construction site and it is impractical to compose a network among numerous sensors in terms of the cost efficiency. In this paper, we propose a data collection system based on interaction between a drone and a few sensors that are installed around the target structure for geotechnical projects. Through experimental results, we also verify the availability and the time and cost efficiency of the proposed system comparing with using inspectors.

Numerical Study on Co-Combustion in Diesel Engine for Heavy-Duty Power Generation (발전용 대형 엔진 적용을 위한 천연가스-디젤 혼소에 대한 수치 해석적 연구)

  • SEO, DONG-KYUN;HUR, KWANG-BEOM;JEONG, YEONTAE;KIM, EUI-HYUN
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.369-376
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    • 2015
  • Recently KEPCO, KOGAS and other institutions are jointly conducting an R&D for the development and demonstration of the power generation system based on a natural gas/diesel engine on an island. As a preliminary study, co-combustion in the dual fuel engine, which is expected to produce a few mega-watts of electricity, was modeled and calculated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The applied key assumptions are 2-dimensional axisymmetric, transient and static volume chemical reaction. Based on the selected blending ratio, which is the key operating condition, natural gas is substituted instead of diesel fuel (basis of high heating value). Results showed that as the blending ratio increases, the reaction rate of the combustion increases and thus maximum temperature is reached more rapidly. For the optimal performance, various geometric or operational studies will further be conducted.

Seismic fragility of regular masonry buildings for in-plane and out-of-plane failure

  • Karantoni, Fillitsa;Tsionis, Georgios;Lyrantzaki, Foteini;Fardis, Michael N.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.689-713
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    • 2014
  • The seismic vulnerability of stone masonry buildings is studied on the basis of their fragility curves. In order to account for out-of-plane failure modes, normally disregarded in past studies, linear static Finite Element analysis in 3D of prototype regular buildings is performed using a nonlinear biaxial failure criterion for masonry. More than 1100 analyses are carried out, so as to cover the practical range of the most important parameters, namely the number of storeys, percentage of side length in exterior walls taken up by openings, wall thickness, plan dimensions and number of interior walls, type of floor and pier height-to-length ratio. Results are presented in the form of damage and fragility curves. The fragility curves correspond well to the damage observed in masonry buildings after strong earthquakes and are in good agreement with other fragility curves in the literature. They confirm what is already known, namely that buildings with stiff floors or higher percentage of load-bearing walls are less vulnerable, and that large openings, taller storeys, larger number of storeys, higher wall slenderness and higher ratio of clear height to horizontal length of walls increase the vulnerability, but show also by how much.

A new damage index for reinforced concrete structures

  • Cao, Vui V.;Ronagh, Hamid R.;Ashraf, Mahmud;Baji, Hassan
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.581-609
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    • 2014
  • Reinforced concrete (RC) structures are likely to experience damage when subjected to earthquakes. Damage index (DI) has been recognised as an advanced tool of quantitatively expressing the extent of damage in such structures. Last 30 years have seen many concepts for DI proposed in order to calibrate the observed levels of damage. The current research briefly reviews all available concepts and investigates their relative merits and limitations with a view to proposing a new concept based on residual deformation. Currently available DIs are classified into two broad categories - non-cumulative DI and cumulative DI. Non-cumulative DIs do not include the effects of cyclic loading, whilst the cumulative concepts produce more rational indication of the level of damage in case of earthquake excitations. Ideally, a DI should vary within a scale of 0 to 1 with 0 representing the state of elastic response, and 1 referring to the state of total collapse. Some of the available DIs do not satisfy these criteria. A new DI based on energy is proposed herein and its performances, both for static and for cyclic loadings, are compared with those obtained using the most widely accepted DI in literature. The proposed DI demonstrates a rational way to predict the extent of damage for a number of case studies. More research is encouraged to address some identified issues.